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January 27, 2012 Volume 19, Issue 10 Publication Mail Agreement #40065156 News [email protected] news.usask.ca TeachingInside kids to sing Community music education program turns 25 Kris Foster Why would a baby take a music class? A lot of research is now Because it’s never too early to learn—a looking into early childhood fact the Community Music Education learning…it is believed Program (CMEP) has been proving for that the basis of intellectual 25 years. “We are like a curiosity is laid during the music conservatory, we’re community- earliest months. ” based and we offer Nicole Wilton Elliott classes for all ages, but we are partic- ularly strong in early childhood classes,” said serves to make the child ready Nicole Wilton Elliott, manager for conscious listening with of CMEP, which is offered by understanding at a later point.” the Centre for Continuing and A lot of research is now Distance Education. “Obviously looking into early childhood an infant cannot understand the learning, explained Wilton music he or she hears, but it is Nicole Wilton Elliott, manager of the university’s Community Music Education Program KRIS FOSTER unconsciously absorbed, and it See Parents, Page 2 Rumours of a rink addressed Colleen MacPherson Rumours abound these days stories. “Rutherford is way past about the imminent replace- its prime. We know that and I’ve With a rink, we’re talking a project in the ment of the university’s aging said publicly several times that it Rutherford Rink. According to a needs to be replaced but we don’t order of $20-30 million for two ice pads, and source close to the project, a new have a definitive funded plan.” rink is still a hope and a dream, What the university does there’s no logical funding source.” but not yet a reality. have is a number of expres- “Will we get a new rink? sions of interest from real estate Richard Florizone I sure hope so, some day,” developers —some local, some said Richard Florizone, vice- national—willing to explore a president of finance andpartnership with the U of S to south of College Drive. “The university,” said Florizone. But resources, when asked about build a twin-pad ice rink along economics seem to be that it’s a partnership that would allow the rumours that have sparked a with a hotel and retail space hard to make a rink work as the U of S to leverage real estate number of media inquiries and as part of the College Quarter purely a private operation by the development to subsidize a rink operation has potential worth Florizone exploring. As with any university retail project garnered seven project, “you look for funders,” responses. he continued. “With a rink, Judy Yungwirth, director we’re talking a project in the of Corporate Administration, order of $20-30 million for two said that during February, ice pads, and there’s no logical an advisory committee that funding source.” A request to includes people with real estate the federal government’s P3 expertise from outside the U of S Canada Fund was turned down will evaluate the responses and late last year but the university’s generate a shortlist. A formal Newsrequest last October for expres- Rutherford Rink [email protected] news.uKRISs FOSTERask.casions of interest in a rink/hotel/ See Overall, Page 9 Inside Legal Celebration Page 3 Saskatchewan made Page 5 2 January 27, 2012 ocn Where there’s a WIL … Members of the student group Women in the Legislature (WIL) are encouraging women to consider getting involved in politics, an influential career path in which women are currently under repre- sented. The group includes, from left to right, Taylor-Anne Yee, Shira Fenyes, Miriam Müller, Heather Franklin, Bryn Rees, Sara Waldbillig MAR K FERGUSON and Paula Steckler. Parents see benefit of class see the benefit and how their lessons in piano, voice, guitar From Page 1 children respond to what we and violin for kids aged from Elliott, and it is believed that the teach, and the classes help create seven to 12 as well as adults. basis of intellectual curiosity is bonds between the parents and “When I started teaching, laid during the earliest months. child as well.” there were four instructors, now “Parenting with Music is CMEP has even started there are 17,” said Wilton Elliott a class we offer for parents and taking their classes on the road. who has taught in CMEP for 14 newborns from zero months up “We do a lot of community years and whose mother was one to three years old. Singing and outreach—we go to nine of CMEP’s first instructors. “I music help synapses form and daycares in the city and take the have seen children who started the brain develop. When music program to those who might in the classes and who are now is involved, research indicates not otherwise get to attend the taking music education at the that the children perform better classes. We also offer bursaries U of S. I’ve seen past students intellectually.” to those who otherwise couldn’t who are now parents with The parents are seeing the afford the classes.” children enrolled in our classes. difference too, she said. “Over But the classes aren’t just for That is the ideal—for us to the past five years, the number wee infants; CMEP also offers engage them and teach them of parents taking their babies to music classes for children up to so that they develop a lifelong music classes has tripled. Parents the age of six as well as private interest in music.” For more news, photos and ocn comments visit us online. news.usask.ca Reta Cowley, Terry Fenton and Dorothy Knowles “Prairie Painters: Light and Pattern” Art Placement is pleased to present this exhibition of three of our best known landscape painters: Reta Cowley, Terry Fenton and Dorothy Knowles. This exhibition explores the connections between each artist from Cowley’s exquisitely structured brushstrokes and delicate nuances of value to Fenton’s classically balanced horizon line and expansive space to Knowles’ consumate paintings that capture an absolute “sense of place” in the soul of the viewer. Reception: Saturday January 28th, 2 - 4pm Exhibition runs January 28th - February 16th, 2012 Reta Cowley, “Untitled (Marsh and Church in Distance)”, 1974, Watercolour on paper, 22 1/2” x 30 3/8” The Gallery / art placement inc. 228 – 3rd avenue s. saskatoon, sk., S7K 1L9 664.3385 [email protected] images are online at: www.artplacement.com www.artplacement.com ocn January 27, 2012 3 Law centennial creates connections Kris Foster With 100 years on the books, the College of Law is looking at its centennial anniversary as a chance to not only celebrate, but also shape the future of the college and the people connected to it. “Certainly 100 years is because it is Saskatchewan, but significant. As a college, we are at we have a sense of community. a historic juncture,” said Sanjeev There is affection for and pride in Anand, dean of the College of the college. I am not sure what the Anand Law. “It’s an opportunity for us to exact reasons are for that, but we re-examine the nature of the legal need to bottle that up.” chairs or positions in areas from practice and align college compe- That pride, he continued, business law to environmental, tencies in order to best serve the helped the college to expand energy and natural resource law. public.” and renovate its facilities. “Our “These are priorities in UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES The Federation of Law teaching spaces are second the college but so is the library An undated law banquet photo. Societies of Canada, he continued, to none in Canada and made which is in need of an update. recently released a report that possible because of the generosity The centennial is a chance to get plished over the past 100 years. But we are modest. Luckily, there highlighted certain competencies of our community.” involved. We might discover the “This is a time for reflection. is a dean who will do the touting needed in a law education. “For That community will consensus is that the school needs We are one of the best schools of our achievements: we have the first time in 40 years we have continue to play an important role ‘X’, and there is a lot of support in Canada; we punch above our opportunity, vision and good accreditation pressure. I think for in the college’s success by helping to achieve ‘X’, whatever that weight and have achieved a lot. If will to make this one of the best us the requirements (for accredit- to launch a variety of initiatives, might be. I think reconnecting schools in the East or West had publicly funded schools in North ation) are modest because we he explained, like the Centen- will create a lot of synergies and our faculty, our students, our America. That is a point of pride have strong experiential learning nial Student endowment fund ideas.” alumni, they would be bragging. for all of us.” programs already, but it is a to expand student experiences, Anand is clear that the chance for us to look at how we an Aboriginal lecture series and centennial is still about cele- can bolster teaching of hands-on even a complement of research brating all that has been accom- lawyering skills, like interviews, trials, advocacy and negotiating.” Anand likens it to teaching from the archives a medical student without seeing patients.

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